This is an analysis of the poem Xxix - A Paris, En Été... that begins with:
A Paris, en été, les soirs sont étouffants.
Et moi, noir promeneur qu'évitent les enfants, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaaX aXXXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111110 111100100110 11111111111 1111111111010 11111111010 1111100101010 111111111011 11111100111010 110110110101 1101111110 1110000111 100111001111 1010101011 0110011010 110111110 1110110011 11101111111111 110010011010 1011101111010 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, je, o, le, et, ne are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word je is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ne, re are repeated).
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